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"No MTN staff were killed. We are at a loss as to the source of this highly erroneous information," spokesman Rich Mkhondo said.

He said damage to telecommunications facilities was confined to certain parts of northern Nigeria, and that only customers in those areas might have experienced service disruptions.

MTN had received several enquiries about MTN staff supposedly killed.

Last week, a radical Islamist sect which has attacked mosques, churches, schools and government buildings at will in Nigeria damaged more than 30 towers operated by all major providers in the country. While no one claimed responsibility for the attacks, the Islamist sect known as Boko Haram threatened mobile phone companies six months ago, warning that they would be targeted for cooperating with the government to flush out its members.

MTN said its customers in Nigeria could experience network failure as a result of the attacks. Nigeria accounts for 25.1% of MTN's 171-million subscribers globally.

Mkhondo said MTN Nigeria had the full cooperation of the country's security and intelligence agencies, and a joint task force in various northern states was providing security for all telecommunications infrastructure.

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Sat May 18 12:12:39 SAST 2013 ::

Sep 12, 2012

Mrazane

Thank God for that.
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